[Eco] Take the BYOB Pledge, Score a Bike and a Glacier

[Cecelia Thomas]

 Living near Boulder, recycling bags for groceries has long been a standard
around here. In addition to the health food stores giving money back (5
cents a bag) or donating the 5 cents to a charity, now the regular grocery
stores do it as well.
King Soopers (Kroger), Safeway and Albertsons all have canvas bags and new
fangled recycled bags available for purchase. The recycled bags are about 99
cents each and if you hit the various fairs and festivals during the summer,
you can these for free handouts.
I keep a canvas bag in my trunk full of various bags and walk into any store
with them. I even do it for some retail stores. I do occasionally get some
looks from the retail stores but I'd rather not go home with one more
plastic bag. I used one yesterday doing some holiday shopping at a book/game
store (where I purchased some copies of Zombie Fluxx for gifts!). They were
pleased as punch that I brought my own bag.

-=Cece

  On Dec 18, 2007 10:53 AM, Maria P <mudpuppy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't had any trouble with it.  I roll up the bags & put them in a
> smaller canvas bag which I also stick my keys, phone & wallet in.  I was
> concerned the first time I did it at Wal-mart, but no worries!  :)  I enjoy
> breaking in cashiers new to the concept...what an opportunity for
> discussion!  It always amazes them how much stuff those bags will hold!
> --Maria
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2007 12:49 PM, Ryan Hackel <deeplogic at excite.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I've got two reusable bags that I take with me when I walk to the
> > supermarket.  But in general I'm wary of taking bags into retail outlets
> > because I'm nervous that I'll be accused of shoplifting.
> >
> > ---Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> >  --- On Tue 12/18, Carol Townsend < carol.townsend at gmail.com > wrote:
> > From: Carol Townsend [mailto: carol.townsend at gmail.com]
> > To: eco at lists.looneylabs.com
> > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:56:46 -0600
> > Subject: Re: [Eco] Take the BYOB Pledge, Score a Bike and a Glacier
> >
> > We also have Aldi's, but even better is the Jewel/Osco stores who are
> > selling really great reusable bags (nice big square-bottom "cloth" bags - I
> > think the cloth is made from recycled plastic bags - with great handles on
> > them), and they're set right by the registers.
> > The only thing that would really encourage the use of these bags more is
> > if you get a few pennies off your purchase for using them. I think the
> > "MOM's" stores in DC do that, don't they?Carol
> > On 12/18/07, Maria P < mudpuppy1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a fantastic idea!  I do it already & don't get near as many "you
> > brought your own bags?" comments & looks of disbelief as I used to.  There's
> > a grocery store called Aldi's that doesn't provide bags so you bring your
> > own or buy them there.  I leave a few in my truck so they're always there
> > when I need them.  I think we all have giant stashes of plastic bags, so
> > let's not let them grow any bigger!   Kudos to you for "doing your part"!
> >  :)  --Maria
> >
> >
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